ZAGREB, July 23 (Hina) - Since its establishment a year ago, the Croatian plant for thermic waste processing, PUTO, has processed 3,800 tonnes of hazardous waste in cooperation with numerous, mostly Croatian, pharmaceutical companies.
Of that amount, 300 tonnes were donated medicines, which represent a special problem for Zagreb and Croatia, PUTO director Stjepan Nikolic told a news conference in Zagreb on Friday. Cooperation with the Health Ministry has resulted in a decision to allocate part of funds, granted recently in the form of a US$28-million loan by the World Bank for the reorganisation of the health system, for the management of medicines which are past their expiry date, Nikolic said, adding there was another 2,500 to 3,000 tonnes of such medicines in Croatian warehouses. Franjo Plavsic, head of the Croatian Institute for Toxicology, which is to monitor the incinerati
ZAGREB, July 23 (Hina) - Since its establishment a year ago, the
Croatian plant for thermic waste processing, PUTO, has processed
3,800 tonnes of hazardous waste in cooperation with numerous,
mostly Croatian, pharmaceutical companies.
Of that amount, 300 tonnes were donated medicines, which represent
a special problem for Zagreb and Croatia, PUTO director Stjepan
Nikolic told a news conference in Zagreb on Friday.
Cooperation with the Health Ministry has resulted in a decision to
allocate part of funds, granted recently in the form of a US$28-
million loan by the World Bank for the reorganisation of the health
system, for the management of medicines which are past their expiry
date, Nikolic said, adding there was another 2,500 to 3,000 tonnes
of such medicines in Croatian warehouses.
Franjo Plavsic, head of the Croatian Institute for Toxicology,
which is to monitor the incineration of medicines, said PUTO would
enter an international public bid for the management of waste from
European countries, to be announced by the World Bank in autumn.
(hina) rml